Aki Sasamoto
works in sculpture, performance, video, and whichever other media she needs to get her ideas across. In her installation and performance works, Aki moves and talks inside the careful arrangements of sculpturally altered objects, activating the bizarre emotions that underlie daily life. Her works appear in galleries spaces, theaters, as well as odd sites. Those have included the Kitchen, SculptureCenter, Chocolate Factory Theater, the 2010 Whitney Biennial, and Greater New York 2010 at MoMA PS1 in New York City; National Museum of Art-Osaka and the 2008 Yokohama Triennale in Japan; the 2012 Gwangju Biennial, the 2016 Shanghai Biennale, and the 2016 Kochi-Muziris Biennale. She has collaborated with musicians, choreographers, mathematicians, and scholars. She teaches sculpture at Yale University. She likes food.

“Do Nut Diagram” was published as part of Triple Canopy’s Internet As Material project area, which receives support from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the Brown Foundation, Inc., of Houston, the Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, the Lambent Foundation Fund of Tides Foundation, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, the New York State Council on the Arts, and the Opaline Fund of the Jewish Community Endowment Federation and Endowment Fund.

Do Nut Diagram

Ghosts have a mission to reconcile their inactions.
That didn’t beat well with an unexpected event. Yeah, yeah.
Ghosts wander about in the kitchen and bedrooms, fueled by grudge.
They roll your vegetables off a cutting board and crumple your duvet inside its sack.

They dwell in the space of routines,
Trying to distract the myopic livings from seeming productivity.
Mindless domesticity recalls the time when they were alive, avoiding.

Ghosts tag the symbol of procrastination beneath bedside chairs and inside the neglected mortars and flower vases.
Objects, in turn, urinate on the foggy bottoms of the ghosts’ clothing,
So that all other ghosts smell your location at their biweekly board meetings in the woods.